Baby Quotes - Page 4

• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Growing Up

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny, Children, Humor

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis

  Art, Entertainment, Stairs

  Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).

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• A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Mother, Children, Arms

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• It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

  Deepak Chopra

  Baby Boy, Newborn, Bliss

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.39, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

  Erik Erikson

  Facts, Controlled, Inspirational Baby

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

  Barbara Johnson

  Diapers, Likes, Baby Boy

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Boys, Baptism

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• Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Children, Kids

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The only time he cries is if he’s hungry. We all have nipples. I don’t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can’t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.

  Selma Blair

  Care, Want, Nipples

  "Selma Blair Admits to Breastfeeding in Public". People Magazine Interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. March 30, 2012.

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• Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

  Tina Brown

  Falling In Love, Children, Husband

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• A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Wings, Legs

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• I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

  Celine Dion

  Inspirational, Powerful, Extraordinary Things

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• If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mom, Children

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mom, Children, Food

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

  Douglas Feaver

  Mother, Thinking, Marriage Love

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• Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dog, Children

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• Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Mom, Lying, Men

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Texas, Land

  "Fictional character: Paul 'Fred' Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

  Robert Orben

  Mom, Food, Boys

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• Children are our most valuable natural resource.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, Children, Natural

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Mother, Circles

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.59, Random House

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• Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

  Shannon Fife

  Children, Humorous, Parenting

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• Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

  Mary Engelbreit

  Mother, Son, People

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